"Nobody is more blind than those who do not care to look"
This site is for curious people who want to look at the generally
invisible world of polarized light. Polarization is present in the rainbow,
in the hidden color of minerals, in the dance of honeybees, in the flow of
molten metal, in the color of beetles, and the gloss of tree leaves at dawn.
Polarization is used for fishing, to measure sweetness, to tell the time,
to create multicolored art, and to reproduce music. It is one of the fundamental
properties of nature and one of the most useful tools for probing the boundaries
of scientific knowledge. But it is also readily accessible to the amateur
with inexpensive polarizing filters. Let's all acquire P-Vision!
Other Attractions!
Photography and polarized filters
Polarized Magic
Louis Pasteur, chirality, and the polarization of life
The 3rd Dimension
Hot Metal
Defining sweetness
Gauging the ultra-thin
Pushing the frontiers of science
Experiments for everybody!
A guest-book/complaint-book/mailbag will be added soon (hopefully). In
the mean time, send questions, comments, and corrections to
DrSouthPolepolarization.com
(a.k.a. J. Alcoz), who maintains the content of this site while
telecommuting from the South Pole (well, South Texas).
This site is also sponsored by Aflash
Photonics, makers of polarization measurement instrumentation: Thanks!